Sir Henry related the day after the outrage, ‘when suddenly a woman sprang up from a steep slope, and, seizing me by the leg, sent me staggering backwards. Just then another woman caught me by the shoulders and tried to push me over – a sheer drop of about 100ft. It was very goo...
"Rock of Ages": Meaning and Tune Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What is the meaning of the hymn ''Rock of Ages''? The hymn "Rock of Ages" refers to God as a rock, an immovable constant. The metaphor refers to the all-powerful ability of God to save. ...
A few songs earlier, Wonder briefly tabled his dream of hope with a hard dose of reality, putting the plea “Love’s in Need of Love Today” against “Village Ghetto Land,” a beautiful baroque hymn of injustice and poverty. Wonder pushed even more focus on inequality and oppression with ...
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No.10 –Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity by John Milton(1935) No.11 –Christ’s Sermon on the Mount(1935) No.12 –The Bible in Type by John Stone(1935) Perhaps Baylis, Francis or Hay somehow saw the illuminated Deguilleville or Chaucer manuscripts to be inspired by their ill...
He tries to extract what is essential from tradition and counter-tradition, ‘characters’ for them that need not be strongly historicised. The problem with Morson’s schematic treatment is this lack of distinctions. On both sides, significant differences in philosophy are elided to produce a ...
When I was three years old, my proud father, who was superintendent of the Sunday School in our small-town Baptist church, stood me on a chair in front of his Bible class so that I could regale the adults with a gospel hymn. (I know this because my mother was so fond of remembering...
Botharchaeologyand Caesar’s own account of his wars show that Germanic tribes then lived on both sides of the Rhine. In fact, broadly similar archaeological cultures from this period stretch across central Europe from the Rhine to theVistula River(in what is now Poland), and Germanic peoples ...
of Ehret’s points of view, this work will make you reflect about most of modern science, to question what appears of the media and in the textbooks. You can become a more critical thinker, which is one of the important things a good book can bring about.”–Andre Koch Torres Assis ...
Despite having penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic twelve years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mother’s to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of their Sons killing the Sons of other Mothers. ...